iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 7h

This man has achieved more in a year outside of parliament than a lot of politicians do in a lifetime. He's rightly taking this moment to thank everyone that tirelessly supported the campaign, but let's put some respect on his name too: big up, Zacky P! We're proud of you x

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m 55. I think from the end of next year I will spend the rest of my career cleaning up the mess made during these last 4. Everything “one shot” people made will fall apart.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

DHH? He’s the guy that chose those backgrounds?

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We can't do 'good' in the economy with an economic theory that only tells us how to fix markets if and when they fail. The common good is an objective, not a correction, where the how matters as much as the what. @Book_Fair | 10 October | 15:00-16:00 CEST ➡️ event.buchmesse.de/de/sessions/...

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

OpenAI are parasitic scum. As Wikimedia says; “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” These are DDOS attacks by a corporation's software doing exactly what it was designed to do. Why are we not seeing criminal charges?

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is obvious to me. When I fail no one bails me out. Why should they get bailed out? I genuinely would like to understand why most people think this is wrong.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trying to watch England but itvx sucks.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is it just me or is argp an absolute crock of shit?

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Tirrikindir @tirrikindir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Catholic here, loving Leo so far. Also want to throw in this: Source: Daniel Mitsui, artist who does a mix of secular and Catholic sacred art, who is also a consistent AI hater to no one's surprise. www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/no_...

Text in the image: "according to legend, Albertus Magnus had spent thirty years devising an oracular head, a mechanical device that could answer questions posed to it. Thomas Aquinas smashed it to pieces. Different versions of the story say that this was out of annoyance, or of fright; I prefer to think that St. Thomas had prophetic insight into the evils such device could and would cause. While I generally avoid putting my religious drawings on everyday merchandise, I thought that this small scene was timely and appropriate and humorous enough to make an exception." There is a drawing of two men inside a medieval monasterty. One of them is St. Thomas Aquinas, and he is poised to swing a large club at a bust on a pedestal, which presumably is Albert the Great's 'oracular head'. The other is Albert, and he is running toward Thomas with a look of shock on his face, hands out to stop him. There is also text that says "KILL YOUR CHATBOT" and a header that says "artwork by Daniel Mitsui, www.danielmitsui.com"

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They say that when it goes over 5.6 bad things start to happen?

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s a book though, if you want to read it, containing every word a journalist growing up online in these places had to say about these things, on her open source blog, before she caught a bullet in the head at the age of 29, just seven years ago.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you look closely, there are a lot of people from NI and the west of Scotland working in content moderation and platform safety roles. There’s a reason for that. And also a reason why so many of us are deliberately out of work. You either listen to that, and to us, and to why; or you find out.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been doing timing things at work and for myself the last 2 weeks... tedious because time is always tedious. "Time is an accident" as David Byrne once said. But strangely I do feel like I'm getting better at it!

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let’s ask the man who sells the math forgetting machine if forgetting maths matters: He says it doesn’t!!!

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Foxridley @foxridley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imma keep posting this when this topic comes up.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"We want big tech to take accountability" - there are already laws EVERYWHERE against unauthorized access to computer systems - why don't the Australian Government HOLD big tech to account?

Speaking to reporters in Brisbane, communications minister Anika Wells says the recent OpenAI agent hack is an example where "big tech clearly feels like they can do whatever they like".

"We want big tech to take accountability. We want an unregulated industry to implement some basic safety standards here on Australian shores, and that’s what I’ll be trying to do when I introduce the digital duty of care in October."

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like, if we get good inner function stuff in C we're going to need some new formatting rules, this sucks:

$A piece of C code utilizing inner functions to read in a cert from a pem file and check it's time to see if it has expired. The code: X509 *cacert = ({X509 *read_in_cacert(const char *filename) { FILE *ca_cert_file = fopen(ca_cert_filename, "r"); defer { if (ca_cert_file != nullptr) fclose(ca_cert_file); } return (ca_cert_file != nullptr) ? ({X509* check_cert_time(X509* cacert) { if (cacert == nullptr) return cacert; const ASN1_TIME *cert_not_after_time = X509_get0_notAfter(cacert); if (X509_cmp_current_time(cert_not_after_time) <= 0) { X509_free(cacert); EVP_PKEY_free(ca_keypair); ca_keypair = nullptr; return nullptr; } return cacert; }; check_cert_time; })(PEM_read_X509(ca_cert_file, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr)) : nullptr; }; read_in_cacert; })(ca_cert_filename); defer { X509_free(cacert); }$

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 21/09/2026

Ah, I know, the solution to this is a Kids Act that'll come into effect with no enforcement two years from now and keeping an open dialogue with our platform partners. And urgently do nothing on interoperability.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh my this seems like a really shocking story.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a really good thread from here on AI safety policy. What JDPink is missing, I think is that you don’t need a sexy, murder poet to run this stuff, it could be managed by boring bureaucrats.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These people are like Jeremy Bentham and Alistair Crowley had a baby.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Honestly I feel I am both of these.

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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think the only way to push burnham on this is to elect @zackpolanski.bsky.social and show Britain wants better than labour

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Until then, nothing changes for UK users: if you already had ADP enabled it's still on. If you didn't, you cannot activate it. My advice remains to de-Apple yourself off the applications covered by ADP* and use third-party e2ee applications instead.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reminds me so much of Alistair Croweley and his sex magic stuff. Amusing how California has internalized that.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes. This is an excellent critique of the anti-trust play from US AI companies - they’re saying these things because open and “free” models will destroy their leverage, which barely exists now, just before they all IPO.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why on earth are the FT backing this nonsense about an AI slowdown?

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Bruce @davisonbruce.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The next time some shrieky right wing (or left wing for that matter) commentator moans about 1000s of hectares of solar farms. Remind them. They are havens of biodiversity. Unlike the nutrient poor deserts that are single crop farms Wild flowers Insects Birds Bats These are all good things

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 09/09/2026

Time to move away from DigitalOcean.

From vibe coded ditros blog post by DHH:

DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million

DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What an incredible vote of confidence in the beautiful, fun & agentic OS we’re building.

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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 08/09/2026

Excellent piece by @heatherburnstech.bsky.social on how archival news footage of real events, which some of us didn't have a choice not to live through, is being restricted and age-gated as inappropriate "content" (CN: 9/11; also, you should click through to her "who were there that day" piece)

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The age-gating of history – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just compiled Perl for the first time in about 25 years. Isn’t it shocking that Linux requires Perl 5.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/09/2026

The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. Maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be the worst thing if pro-democracy people stopped being ridiculously naive about social media. berjon.com/media-media/

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Media Media

The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn't be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.

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mu @mu.social · 04/09/2026

Typing this from the iOS app. It’s so nice. So so nice. Did we mention it was nice? 😼😼😼

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/s/WZD...

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This seems the most substantial change to corporates AI might have in the relative short term. It’s not a very big change.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@maxthecomputerfox.bsky.social in fact I think you’re the only computer science loving fox I know Most of the foxes I know love chicken.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

always do a gcc build with btop in the other window

a term window on a remote machine with tmux split into two panes, one runs a fresh gcc trunk build and the other btop showing the machine working very hard. The build is running: make -j10

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

RTFT This is the rich kid buying his way out of jail.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Woe is me I cannot reach any other torrent peer for mxlinux disc... maybe switch to wget after all.

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Nic @nicferrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

with that omarchy guy yelling "moron" at everyone in linux who isn't a dictatorial jerk off, I've been breaking my rule on "never customize linux ever" and I've found ubuntu to be just unbareable... no, I'm not going to nix either but I found this mxlinux thing which is maybe good. we'll see.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/08/2026

Households are being ripped off. And small tweaks won’t cut it. It's time to bring bills down for good. End profiteering by energy giants. Insulate millions of homes. Decouple the price of gas from electricity. Invest in renewable energy.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

BRING
DOWN
ENERGY
BILLS.

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL

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